Comments on: Debito.org Newsletter for October 13, 2007

by: Ken Worsley

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:50:26 +0000

JS, enough already. No one cares.

by: DeOrio

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:10:01 +0000

Sadly, I am relatively lowly-skilled. I am only one person, one mere blogger. Maybe I should get an alter-ego, you think people would see through Oiroed? Oiroed could tell me what a genius I was and would never, ever bog me down in arguments over things I hadn’t said. He could even helpfully elucidate points I’d made.

What happens if the alter ego makes a really insightful point, though? Wouldn’t the egomaniac want everyone to know it was him? But if he told everyone, that would destroy his ego. Tough racket.

I have no idea who Ampontan’s commenters are, though. I don’t read Ampontan much. Let’s give the guy a break, OK?

by: JS

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:45:03 +0000

DeOrio: I nominate Ampontan for being the best at being one guy who writes a blog and has like 15 different people who regularly comment, who are obviously all just him, leaving comments on his own blog and stroking his own ego. He’s really good at that! Are you?

by: DeOrio

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:10:05 +0000

True enough. Yours is the only running-photography-rumination Japan blog of which I’m aware.

by: Turner

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:11:28 +0000

And naturally, I remain at the forefront of whatever my specialty is in Japan.

by: DeOrio

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:30:25 +0000

Yes, Ken, of course you can. You’re always going to be high up in the hierarchy.
I’d actually divide into three categories: Those I read because I want to, those I read once in a while by chance, and those I avoid. What Japan Thinks, of course, is in the first category.

by: Ken Y-N

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:12:33 +0000

I don’t read Danny myself either, but I notice his feed at the footer of Japan Probe. He’s definitely got a very nice set up (20,000 plus visitors per day, I think, and good traffic affiliate ideas) and no shortage of soft pr0n on display that surely must bring in the money. Not my cup of tea in the slightest, however.

He’s just popped ahead of me for “Japanese Emoticons”, which is my top keyword, if we exclude some broken MSN Live searches. I’ll have to investigate his backlinks tonight to see why it’s there…

Oh, and can I get my own category too please?

by: DeOrio

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:04:32 +0000

Mutant Frog might need its own category, too. Although I’d put it in with TPR and give Observing Japan, Shisaku, GlobalTalk 21, and Liberal Japan their own category.

I took a look at Danny Choo, because of this thread, for maybe the second time ever. Certainly no shortage of stuff for sale (including most of the space on the site.) More power to him, he’s doing it well, it seems.

Now, in this hierarchy, do we have power over Debito b/c we’re distributing his podcast, or does he have power over us b/c we’re distributing his podcast?

On a separate note, I hope people have been listening to Debito’s podcast and I especially hope everyone who possibly can will join us on Saturday night at Big Ys Cafe in Yokohama. It’s for a good cause.

by: Ken Worsley

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:31:36 +0000

Ken…No, I haven’t noticed. I’ve seen it once, a few months ago, but I’m not into that kind of stuff. I just saw a site where lots of stuff is for sale.

by: Ken Y-N

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:17:37 +0000

Ken, good point about Danny Choo - I suppose you’ve noticed too that recently a number of his posts have been rather SEOd with two-word titles and clumsy repitition of the keywords in the blog posts.